Your tone does come off as negative, especially the second question. I think virtually everyone agrees with that, so why bother asking unless you are questionin

Your tone does come off as negative, especially the second question. I think virtually everyone agrees with that, so why bother asking unless you are questioning the intelligence of him (which I do not think you do, but you come off that way)? If you do not want to sound negative you should skip any questions with only one sane answer.